Unbelievable new rules for working with children

The new laws for working with children are currently being debated on BBC. Basically if you work with children in any capacity (including if you drive your children and their friends to sports practice or carpool to school) you will have to be checked out by the Police as a potential abuser. It strikes me as nothing less than incredible that the government and quangoes cannot see the effect this law will have on relations between children and adults. We already have a situation where many adults see kids as potential muggers and kids see adults as potential sexual abusers. The different groups are already highly segregated. The new law will make this worse and further erode the trust between adults and children. It is another example of forcing everyone to jump through bureaucratic hoops for a highly dubious amount of public good